| Phenotype: | notochord posterior side disorganized, abnormal |
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| Note: | This statement combines anatomy and/or ontology terms with phenotype quality terms to create a complete phenotype (EQ) statement. For detailed information on individual terms, click the hyperlinked term name. |
| Name: | notochord |
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| Synonyms: | notocord |
| Definition: | Rod-like principal supportive element of the embryo and larva, present in the midline just ventral to the neural tube, and differentiating during the segmentation period to form large vacuolated epithelial cells and a surrounding sheath of fibrous and elastic layers. Layering of the sheath may differ in structure, thickness and development among groups; in cypriniforms there are actually three very thin layers to the sheath. A functional, well developed notochord is present throughout life in certain basal fish groups but not in cypriniforms. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000135] |
| Name: | posterior side |
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| Synonyms: | caudal, posterior |
| Definition: | An anatomical region that is the entire part of an anatomical structure posterior to a transverse plane and bounded on one side by the same transverse plane. |
| Ontology: | Spatial Ontology [BSPO:0000056] |
| Name: | disorganized |
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| Definition: | A structural quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's lacking organisation. |
| Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0000937] |